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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.