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.

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

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

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

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.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.