I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.