I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.