The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!