This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.