One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual.

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.