Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.