On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.