It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

Don't uncork what you can't contain