My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!