I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.