I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Most chick-singers say "If you hurt me, I'll die"... I say, if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

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

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.