You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

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

It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.