You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.