I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have #1 records. I don't think you can do it forever. I don't know what the time span of that is going to be. I want to sing because I want to sing.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.