Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.

If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There's so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.

Education, transportation and health care was what I ran and won on. That's what we're going to be focused on.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.