I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'
My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.