I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.