[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.