You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

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