I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!