Shania Twain on her "very long road" to getting it right

She can command a stadium crowd, but spend some time with Shania Twain and you'll see she may be most herself with the horses."I just love being with them," she said.

"I ride in my pajamas in the mornings! … It's just a great escape."   It sounds a little like how she sees music, that other passion, which made her the top-selling female country artist of all time.Sometimes she'll blend the two, taking her horses on tour, which she admits takes some planning.

 We joined her for a ride in Hyde Park on a down day between performances at London's Wembley Stadium, where we'd just seen her electrify the audience.She'd gotten an invite from Harry Styles to join him as his special guest for 12 nights at Wembley in June.

Watching her perform, it's hard to imagine that Twain has suffered from stage fright."The amount of people is not necessarily what affected me over the years with stage fright," she said.

"It was starting so young in bars that were, you know, I was eight years old, and the bars were smoky, and everyone was intoxicated.I don't know what I'm actually singing about, because I'm singing about divorce, and I'm eight."Twain grew up poor in rural Ontario, Canada, but her mom recognized riches and potential in her voice, and would ferry her to bars to sing.

As a minor, Twain was only allowed on stage after last call."This was just an uncomfortable place to be as a child, and I carried that with me," she said.

"And only in my 50s, I finally just said, Whoa.I've got my voice.

I have an audience.I have everything to just celebrate.

And the fear just dropped away."She reminisces about all of this in her new album, "Little Miss Twain," out later this month."'Little Miss Twain' is me, now, looking back at my child's self and the journey that child went through, from starting out in those bars at eight years old, right up to when I got my recording contract in Nashville," she said.

"I didn't get a contract until I was in my late 20s....