I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.