And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.