I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I don't see music as working.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.