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

I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

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

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.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

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.