“It's like a bowl of spaghetti,” Sheryl Crow says about Sheryl, the new documentary that follows her life and career. “You start out and you're like, 'Oh, this looks so good!' and the more you eat, it's never-ending.” Though this isn’t the first time Crow has approached the process of telling her story on-screen—there are apparently five previous docs on the cutting-room floor—she was still hesitant to take the plunge with Sheryl, which debuted on Showtime on May 6. “I always just thought documentaries were something that were at the end of your career,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I feel like I'm not quite on the back nine yet. But the other thing is, I'm really private, and I didn't want it to feel like, 'This is your life, and look at all the awards.' Once we discussed and decided it should be the story of the person as opposed to the career, it made more sense to me. And I have to say, I love documentaries. The Nina Simone documentary, the Wings documentary—we watch documentaries on the road all the time. Even The Go-Go's—I watched that one recently. I was just like, 'Holy shit.' I just think it's good, especially in this day and age where everything is so branded and we sort of manipulate what we want people to know about us. I'm too old for that. I'm not born into the social media era. My kids are like, 'Mom, you know you were born in the 1780s,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, I'm so happy.'” She’s well aware of the fact that her sons, Wyatt and Levi, will likely see this documentary one day. She’s more than okay with that. “Some of this stuff has really hard stuff,” she said. “My kids are going to grow up understanding what mental illness is. They're going to grow up understanding what it means to be a woman, not just in the '80s and '90s, but it's still going on. And also, they're growing up with an older mom, and when they watch the documentary, they'll see a young person who is at the top of their game. They're living with the person now who's still doing it but it's not the same.” Beyond her kids and her immediate circle, Crow is optimistic that her story will strike a chord in viewers outside of the music industry. “I think it will resonate with women outside of our business, particularly women inside of our business,” she said. “Hopefully, it will resonate with people who have had struggles like I've had with depression, the high highs and the low lows. And also, hopefully, it will help us, as women, to embrace being our ages, and honor that, and feel proud of it, and not feel like I got to run and get my face fixed to look younger so that I'm more palatable to look at, or I'm more perfect, or whatever. I think it's part of the beautiful part of the journey.”