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.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

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.

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

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

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.