I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.