After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

Pretty is never beautiful.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.