I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

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.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

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

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

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