May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

I want a woman president - really, I do.

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.