If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.