If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

They are in it to make money, period, ... And they are looking at their earnings at the end of a fiscal year. You, on the other hand, are the total opposite of that. You are trying to express yourself, your deepest stuff. The two really don't go together when you think about it.

Basically what we did -- I wrote poetry, he took it home and came back the next day with music to it, ... It was that simple. It took us three weeks' time to do the whole CD.