Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.