Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

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.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.