I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

In workout keep the balance between health and happiness - and also to choose the exercises that you love most so it doesn't seem so hard.

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

I write music every day.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.