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.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.