My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time..

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my da….

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really….

He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the cont….

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my….

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what Go….

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened ….

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks..

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think..

Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and….

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even thi….

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children..

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going bac….

The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the….

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He ….

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him..

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their p….

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Balla….

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant..

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complica….

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I ….