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.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

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.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.