Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving,  in humility and kindness.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

People will never respond to you more positively than when you seek to make your impact felt at the human level.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Conquer the angry man by love.

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.