I Want To Be Age Appropriate. I

There Are Days When I Swear I Could Fly Like An Eagle And Dark Desperate Hours That Nobody Sees My Arms Stretched Triumphant On Top Of The Mountain My Head In My Hands Down On My Knees

I Can Be. I Do Not Normally Try To Be. In Fact, There Have Been Some Reviews - Which I've Loved - That Said I Didn't Try To Sell My Show On Sex, That I Sang My Show. On The Other Hand, I Know I'm Cute. I Can Dance. I Don't Have A Bad Figure. I Know Exactly What I Am. I'm Certainly No Great Beauty. I Know Exactly How Far I Can Go.

Even In My Really Bad, Drugged-out Days, I Didn't Go Away. I Still Toured, Still Did Interviews. I Never Gave Up The Fight. That's Why I'm Who I Am Today, Because I Didn't Leave. And I Think I Made The Right Choice.

I Do Not Walk Away In The Face Of Adversity And Never Have.

When You Grow Up As A Girl, The World Tells You The Things That You Are Supposed To Be: Emotional, Loving, Beautiful, Wanted. And Then When You Are Those Things, The World Tells You They Are Inferior: Illogical, Weak, Vain, Empty.