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"CAROLE RADZIWILL: You&amp;amp;#8217;re a rock star, a new mom, you have a new album and you&amp;amp;#8217;re newly single. That&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot of newness! SHERYL CROW: Are you saying I&amp;amp;#8217;m an old rock star? CR: No! [Laughs.] SC: I&amp;amp;#8217;m 46, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m still young at heart. [As for dating,] it&amp;amp;#8217;s difficult to find men who want to grow old with a woman their age. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not like they&amp;amp;#8217;re thinking, You&amp;amp;#8217;re too old for me. It&amp;amp;#8217;s more like, Ten years from now you&amp;amp;#8217;ll be too old. CR: But there is something very sexy about a young man dating older women. SC: I love it. It&amp;amp;#8217;s so rare, though. But I do end up dating younger men. CR: You&amp;amp;#8217;re in your forties with the body of a teenager! SC: Well, I meditate and I run. I do it for my mind. CR: Do you overanalyze? SC: I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had the illusion that I control everything in my life: If you work hard, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll get what you want; if you&amp;amp;#8217;re &amp;amp;#8220;physically fit,&amp;amp;#8221; nothing bad will happen. You think, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not the one who gets cancer. CR: Was that a life-changing event? [Sheryl was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.] SC: It became the most refining moment of my life. It was the first time I did not go to a guitar or a computer to write it down. It was an opportunity to suffer through feelings without explaining them through songs. CR: There&amp;amp;#8217;s a song on your new album called &amp;amp;#8220;Now That You&amp;amp;#8217;re Gone,&amp;amp;#8221; which seems to be about life after Lance [Armstrong, whom Crow dated in 2005]. SC: It&amp;amp;#8217;s not about a specific person. When you get out of a relationship, it&amp;amp;#8217;s important to get to the point where you don&amp;amp;#8217;t have strong feelings about it, bad or good. You can just kick back and be happy. CR: Another song is called &amp;amp;#8220;Diamond Ring,&amp;amp;#8221; but it&amp;amp;#8217;s not about happily ever after. SC: Many women think the &amp;amp;#8220;ring&amp;amp;#8221; will solidify their relationship, but sometimes the expectations are too much. CR: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve been engaged three times. SC: [Laughs.] I know! Next time I&amp;amp;#8217;ll skip the diamonds and just go get married. I think instead of three&amp;amp;#8217;s a charm, maybe four is the charm. CR: Or maybe secretly you don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to be married. SC: There are definitely reasons as to why I&amp;amp;#8217;m not married. And I think a large part of it is due to the fact that I pick people who don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to get married. CR: Your parents have been married more than 50 years. Do you believe &amp;amp;#8220;happily ever after&amp;amp;#8221; exists? SC: I love the way my life has gone, and I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had some truly great loves. I&amp;amp;#8217;m like Elizabeth Taylor&amp;amp;#8212;I believe in love. CR: Whatever you&amp;amp;#8217;re doing, it seems to be working. SC: I had this clear picture of what my life was going to look like: I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to get married and have kids. You create your mythology, but sometimes it&amp;amp;#8217;s based on a perception that isn&amp;amp;#8217;t the truth about you. Having cancer made me say, &amp;amp;#8220;OK, what is it I want from my life?&amp;amp;#8221; I thought, If I want to be a mom, there are kids out there that need moms. I think you choose your family. And I did. [Crow adopted a son, Wyatt, now 11 months old, last April.] CR: I believe everyone gets to write their life story. You&amp;amp;#8217;re writing a great one: the rock star single mom! SC: [Laughs.] Whatever that means. CR: Your album is also very political. SC: Yes, I think this is an important time politically. CR: So your album title, Detours, refers not just to your life but also to detours we&amp;amp;#8217;ve made as a country? SC: Exactly. I feel this is the beginning of a movement toward change in this country, similar to the &amp;amp;#8217;60s. I want to inspire people to know that we do have a say. Carole Radziwill is the author of What Remains, now available in paperback."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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