I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.