It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.

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.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.