We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

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

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.