I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Life is a song to me.