Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.

My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.