As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.