The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.

Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.