I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

What are words without the melody?

People inspire people. That’s the more reason why mentor-ship is a critical tool for dreams accomplishment.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.