My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

There's a certain place you want to get to, and in order to do that, you have to be vulnerable.

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.