The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.