Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Every person's every action has an effect.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.