I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.