You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.