There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

I've had the big ups and the big downs.