Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

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

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.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

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.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.