Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.