I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know?

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.