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 cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.