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

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

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

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

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'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.

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.