I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.