So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.