I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.