Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

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.

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.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

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

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.