The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

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

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.