You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.