I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.