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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.