"Once people knew I was going to tour, everyone started calling. And Cher's camp called and we decided to tour together. People think we do lunch every day, but she's so busy. And so am I. We wave to each other sometimes, but don't hang out together or anything."

On her career: "I'm really happy with the work I did with my record label, but it was time to move on. And even they weren't really happy with me. They were ready for me to go, too.

"I do club things to promote the single ("Disco Inferno"), and it's fabulous. The people that go to clubs -- you really feel like they're your people. You can look them in the face and really see them. Whereas, at the big arenas, it's a different thing. You have to wrangle them, make them see you. And I always feel bad for the people in the nosebleed section.

"It's hard work. I climb around and stuff, but I always feel like you have to grab their attention and keep it."

On what's ahead: "We did a lot of great work together (with Sony) and I'm very proud of it, but I'm looking out to do something else. I don't know what, exactly, but I want to find a situation where I can do everything I do in one medium.

"It will probably be television, but I need to find the right people. I'd be the front guy; I'd do the visuals and the music. But I don't want a talk show or anything like that. I could never see myself just sitting and doing all the talking. That's not for me."

On 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun': "I know some people dismissed the song as comical. But it wasn't. The song was an anthem. 'We want to have a life, to have fun,' is what the song spoke about. We don't want to be wearing the shackles.

"I saw three generations of people coming together. I saw grandmothers wearing their rhinestones to the concert. I saw mothers with spray paint on one side of their face, and I saw their babies all dressed up. What it really was, was a unified front. It brought women together. It wasn't some comical thing. It brought the generations together."