I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

My career doesn't get harder because when you have something to share, you have something to share. And when it's a trial or a situation that you triumph out of, you have to - because this is the relationship I started with my fans on the My Life album in 1994. You have to share in order for people to see how you came through it, or how you're dealing with having thoughts of doubting yourself. What songs are gonna help you? What lyrics are gonna pull you out of your slump?