I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

There are times when, for many years, I've been irrelevant - and it was OK! I had my moment. No one is responsible for anyone else's dreams. I don't need a babysitter. I just needed to know that I could do this. I just think that my happiest time or my best time, upon reflection, is that I had the courage to do this.

I first heard Heaven Without a Gun when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs. I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

I just know I was part of a moment, and everyone showed up with love. I'm just blown away by this all but you can feel it in listening [Forest Green], and it's hard to listen 'cos sometimes life distracts you or you run away from listening. We didn't know what we were doing.

To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, Who Came First is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite why is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with Sister OK.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].

I was going through some stuff regarding my mom and dad. There was 30 years difference [between them], so when you hear the lyric, Girl I love you / You know I do / And I do not doubt / That you love me too / But you're so young / Your life has just begun, that's what I was wondering. They were married for 44 years.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.