The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.