Sheryl Crow doesn't expect her new album to be a chart-topper.

The American beauty, who has a catalogue of popular hits to her name, releases 'Be Myself' later this month but is realistic about her expectations for the record and is just thankful she is an "elder stateswoman" of music and doesn't have to compete with younger artists.

She said: "I know that commercial pop music is really geared towards young people.

"I don't for one second kid myself that this record is going to shoot up the charts and be bought by a bunch of 13 year olds. It's just good if it gets heard. 

"And now being one of the elder stateswomen of music... I look around and go, 'Oh gosh, there's just so much manoeuvring to be the next sexiest, the most trending.' I just think, wait till you get to the point where you're just happy to be who you are. It is liberating!"

The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker admits she couldn't see herself starting out in music nowadays because things are so sexualised. She said:

"There's no way I could do it. I remember on my first album, this stylist came in with all these gorgeous clothes. I was, like, 'Urgh!'

"I thought to myself, 'I have to make sure I don't look glamorous because I want to be taken seriously.' So on my first couple of albums, you couldn't even see what I looked like - everything was blurry and I wore trashy clothes."

And Sheryl recalls being horrified when she saw the first edit for the video of her 1996 single, 'If It Makes You Happy'.

She said: "The way they shot it, you could see up my skirt. And when I got the cut, I said to the record label: 'We're going to have to re-edit this thing because you can see my underwear.'

"And they said: 'Is that really a bad thing?' We went through it and cut it frame by frame."

'Be Myself' is released later this month on April 21, via Warner Bros. 

Be Myself Track Listing:

Alone in the Dark
Halfway There
Long Way Back
Be Myself
Roller Skate
Love Will Save the Day
Strangers Again
Rest of Me
Heartbeat Away
Grow Up
Woo Woo

Pre-order the album here.

Sheryl Crow 2017 Tour Dates 

Apr 19 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Apr 22 – Atlantic City, NJ – Tropicana Casino & Resort
Apr 28 – Panama City, FL – Pepsi SpringJam
Apr 29 – Orlando, FL – Dr. Phillips Center
Apr 30 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall

May 19 – London, UK – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

June 06 – San Diego, CA – Humphreys By The Sea
June 08 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
June 10 – Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery
June 11 – Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery
June 21 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap Filene Center
June 23 – Williamsburg, VA – Funhouse Fest
June 24 – Raleigh, NC – North Carolina Museum of Art
June 25 – Atlanta, GA – Chastain park Amphitheatre
June 28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
June 29 – Rochester, NY – Xerox Rochester Int’l Jazz Festival
July 07 – Chicago, IL – Ravinia Festival
July 11 – Carmel, IN – The Palladium
July 14 – Chautauqua, NY – Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater

Buy tickets here and here.