I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.