Beth Hart

It's really hard to do, but I think it's an important thing for, no matter what type of artist you are, to trust that the reason why you are given the love of being artistic is just to make you happy - it's not to make you rich and famous. ”

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse. ”

I was very neurotic as a kid, but I also used to pray to God as a young kid in school. It was a form of meditation to slow my head down and not make me feel nervous. ”

Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation. ”

I wasn't really raised in a religious family. ”

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma. ”

I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people. ”

When I'm going through something really difficult, I think it's what made me go to the piano for the first time when I was a child. I look at it as a place to pray. ”

If I ever had to choose between having a good mind and good health with having big success, then there's no contest: I'd put my health first every time. ”

I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone. ”