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

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.