When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

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.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

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If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

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We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.