I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.

I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.

Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.