You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

I wanted to create a line for women and men alike that would encourage them to embrace the harmony and divine balance of sensuality and spirituality within all of us. Forplai is an opportunity to not only smell good and feel good, but to also take time to connect with the heavens above and the god in you.