Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in, and you're told you play this note, this note, and this note, and you don't vary it. I know that works great for some people. It wouldn't work for me.