People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'