I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

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.

Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

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.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

Traveling renews you.