After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way.'"

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

"When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, I'll write it."

"There's no insecurity about my song writing. I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."

"You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing."