As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.