I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it!

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.