When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.