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.

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.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

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

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

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