The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

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

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

I'm going to live what I believe

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 now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.