Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on