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.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

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.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

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.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.