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

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

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

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.