I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

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.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

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