The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.