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Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

My life is to sing.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.