Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

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 worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.