What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

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

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

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

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

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.