I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
