When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.

Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.