When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.
My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
