I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.
Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
