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

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.