I'm Really Fortunate. I'm Really Happy, And

You Talk To People And They Seem Really Nice And Then You Read What They Write And It's Very Disillusioning. You Have To Deal With How People Let You Down In Terms Of That. Because I Think I'm Basically A Nice Person And I Think I'm A Real Person, And A Lot Of People Aren't.

The International Music Scene Has Grown So Much, And America Is Sort Of Following That.

We've All Been Influenced By Other People...if Minnie Riperton Never Existed, Would I Have Even Thought Of Singing In That (upper) Register? I Doubt It.

Being A Mother Is Probably The Hardest Job In The World. I Feel Like, In A Lot Of Ways, Children Come Into The World To Teach Us.

It Seems As Though I've Always Been,somebody Outside Looking In,well, Here I Am For All Of Them To Bleed,but They Can't Take My Heart From Me,and They Can't Bring Me To My Knees,they'll Never Know The Real Me.