Sheryl Crow talks about becoming a mother

Earlier this month, Sheryl Crow quietly adopted a two-week old son, who she named Wyatt Steven Crow after her father and brother. At the time, she said on her website that she intended to have "some very private family time." But now Sheryl is ready to share the joy of her new motherhood. She has done an interview about Wyatt for OK! magazine.

Crow told OK!, "I've always wanted to adopt. Even if I'd had my own kids, I would have adopted. I love the idea of adopting. I always thought I had an immense amount of love to give…I did not care [whether the child was a boy or girl.] I did not care what nationality. I do believe, and it may sound wacky, that souls pick their surroundings. I feel like Wyatt was on his way, one way or the other."

Sheryl reveals that it was her bout with breast cancer that influenced her to go ahead with the adoption process. "I got started at the end of my radiation treatment," she says.

The 45-year-old singer says of her first words to Wyatt: "I think I said, 'Welcome to the world,' but mostly I just stared at him…My parents were out here when he was born. My mom would hand him to me and say, 'Here's your mommy.' It was really poignant and very startling to hear my mom call me Mommy. It took me a while to get used to it."