I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

I Google'd myself a lot of times believe me. A lot of people know more about me than I knew.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.