I like the music. I don't like the business. I get very tired of the travel and moving, constantly moving. But the hour-and-a-half that I'm making music, I'm one of the happiest people on earth.

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 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.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.