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It was really thrilling and hard to believe -- very surreal.

Thank you very much! I feel really blessed to have a body that has the stamina to withstand all the years, because the type of singing is strenuous. I usually don't do formal exercise, but I usually sing along with someone else's CD before I go onstage, like Emilou Harris, Alison Krause, Chris Whitley, and lately I've been listening to a lot of Bob Marley, and singing along.

The guys in Alice in Chains... There have been a few people over the years who I didn't even think would even care about Heart, who told me I inspired them.

Oh, boy. So, what I'm about to say is going to be really hard for anyone to understand except people in their 60s. Chubby Checker and Martha and Vandellas, at a movie theater in Seattle, Washington. My first big arena show was the Beatles in Seattle, in 1966.

Each song is different, but generally, I think the lyrics come first, and the music second. Right now Heart is working on a song where the music comes first, and it's a whole different process... It's a lot more complicated.