As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

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.

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 don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

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

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.