People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

I'm a little young for retirement.