The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.