I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

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.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.