Sheryl Crow has won nine Grammy Awards, received 32 Grammy nominations, launched a campaign to get young people voting, overcome breast cancer and sold more than 50 million albums since she started her music career back in the 90s. And it doesn’t seem like that number is going to stop growing anytime soon.

On Friday, the singer songwriter released her 11th album, Threads, which she said would be her last. But with a back catalogue of classic songs and a continued appetite for song-writing, Crow isn’t disappearing into retirement just yet.

“I’m sure I’ll keep making music, because I’m just one of those people that can’t not write,” Crow told the BBC. “Particularly being my age, with my young boys, it’s a real honour to be able to go out and play music – because it doesn’t happen for everyone and I’ve been on the real blessed end of things.”

However, Crow hasn’t always felt so accepted. In a new interview with the BBC, the music icon revealed how she felt like an outsider when she started her career in the 1990’s, saying she “felt like a man without a country”.

Sheryl Crow admits feeling like an outsider at the beginning of her career