I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'