I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.