 But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me. |
| If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process. |
| I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track. |
| If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A. |
| My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse. |
| All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream. |
| That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it. |
| So when I'm working out I do things extreme. |
| I have to be very careful about diet and exercise. |
| When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. |
| My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting. |
| By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. |
| This is one hell of a business I picked to be in. |
| I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs. |
| And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people. |
| I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone. |
| Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control. |
| Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant. |
| I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks. |
| My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence. |
