My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

I never had innocence.

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.