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" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "

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" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. "

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" I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. "

" I like cosy, intimate houses. "

" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

" I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. "

" There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach. "

" When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. "

" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "

" If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? "

" My childhood was extreme. "

" If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. "

" My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. "

" The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. "

" I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. "

" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "

" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "

" I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head. "

" I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "