I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.