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

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

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

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.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?