We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.

I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

To be honest, I didn't think I would be here for this album [Give the People What They Want]. I thought I was going to die. When the doctor came in by himself and told me I had cancer, it was frightening. He told me he got it and there would be six months of chemo. I really thought people would be promoting my record without me here to enjoy it. But I'm here.

Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.