If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

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

I am woman, hear me roar.