I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.

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

I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.

When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.

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.

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

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