Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

We did the opening tailgate party - I'm not a big football person - and it started to rain. I was a little sick and went back to the hotel where we were all staying. We didn't know whether Prince was going to go on or not because the rain got so bad. He had already prerecorded it just in case he couldn't go on. So I'm sitting there wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle and hot tea, and he goes on and it's the most magical thing I have ever seen.

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.