A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

I didn't not perform.

Don't cry out loud, keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings. Fly high and proud, and if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Think good for yourself, good will follow you.when you think good for others, happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

Honor lies in honest toil.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.