My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.