I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

DEAR LIGHT : you colored my life, and then you destroy me!

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.