Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.