Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.