I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

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

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 learned a woman is never an old woman.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

you dont know what you got till its gone

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.