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

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

You stand by me, and you believe in me like nobody ever has. When my world goes crazy, you're right there to save me. You make me see how much I have.

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.

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.