Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.