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

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

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?'

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.