I’m female, thank God, because if I was male this really would be difficult. And, of course, I don’t attempt to sound like my father – I do my own thing.

I had anything but a happy childhood. Two words: lonely and deep. I was very lonely and way too deep for someone so young.

The lyrics are more conceptual than anything. They’re not particularly about a person. They’re just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew.

I kinda got hooked.

For some reason, when I turned 30 I became a teenager again and it wasn’t really by my own will, it just happened. I married and had my first baby at 21, so I had...

I’ve been through enough in my time where I’ve needed to outlet it. If I can do that in a way where I’m going to touch others and affect others then I’d rather do it...

I’m sad about this but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake.

I’m doing it because music’s been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything. I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever...

I’ll say it loud and say it proud. I’m completely insane.

My kids are so much more together than I ever was. They’re my baby-sitters! It’s funny having kids when you’re young, because you grow up with them. There’s something to be said for having them...

If people are expecting me to be like my dad they’re going to be disappointed. I’m nothing like him. I’m in a completely different category.

She has big plans- she is making me a nervous wreck. She wants to make her own money, which I totally respect but she is still my baby.

Anything my father did for me or gave me was done out of love. I’m sure I had moments when I was a snot. But my mom was there to smack me back to the...

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own...

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle...

I liked an Aretha Franklin song and I went into the studio to do a cover to see if I could sing. I basically walked in there and said, ‘Let’s just try this, and if...

I’ll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, or they’re really skeptical.

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of...

I’ve produced something that was mine, that I’m proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It’s not based on some other B.S. that I’m getting attention. I get attention...

At the time I agreed to do The Weatherman, I was going through a divorce,

That you sit around, and you drink and you curse and you’re [expletive] funny and you have a bad mouth, and you don’t have that high voice all the time. I don’t know why you...

With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise...

I’m not a big mover. Apparently I do have some mannerisms on stage.

I’ve been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

The reason I did this, and the reason the record is called To Whom It May Concern, is that there are going to be people who will immediately judge me, or label me, or try...

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don’t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I don’t deal well with admiration if it’s for something I haven’t done. Other than exist.

[Cage is frank about why he was drawn to the film.] I was going through a divorce … and was feeling adrift and vulnerable. I heard about the movie, and I thought it might be...

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that’s it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older...

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there...

I’m sure there’s no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It’s impossible not...

Music’s always been such a big part of my life – it’s always got me through everything and it always moves me – so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them,...

I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever’s out there who wants to be moved by me. I aimed it at people who...

I’m not eager to jump into marriage again. I’m in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

My son is a huge rap fan. My daughter is more rap/alternative/pop.

It hasn’t happened very often that I’ve actually given my heart. Sometimes I can be completely smitten, but I’ll still keep it back at arm’s length. Because if I do give it to someone and...

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I’m not an Elvis impersonator.

I have a lot of memories, but I don’t go into capitalizing on that. Something’s got to be my own. I’m not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the...

I’m looking forward to being the Grand Marshal at the Sam’s Town 250. I’ve definitely become a total NASCAR fan!

I do like to write nasty songs. It’s a useful weapon to have, and it’s cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.