I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.