I didn't not perform.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

I look like Walt Disney just threw up.