It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Music is the center of my life.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.