The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

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.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.