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The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.