Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. |
That has been said, especially by younger artists. But life just happens, and one step leads to the next, ... A lot of people were already working really hard doing what I was doing before I came along. |
The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing. |
The greatest part of this, I just keep experiencing over and over again are people coming together and talking about things that really matter to them. The act of talking about something that matters is empowering all by itself, even if the wish isn't picked. |
The hard times are several years behind me now. This is probably the most peaceful stretch of life I've known as an adult. |
The music industry has changed so much. Musically, I don't really know what it is I'm trying to do. |
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity. |
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. |
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. |
There've been a couple of times, I've gone in the closet and had a good hard cry, ... There's been so much going on in our lives and in our country, seeing people struggle. I'm sure most of us have had moments of private wailing. It's a hard time. But at the same time, in my own life, I feel overwhelmed with goodness. |
This beautiful Florida sky, palm trees, green grass and all of this love and happy faces, we have so much to be grateful for, I Will Remember You. |
THREE WISHES |
To be invited into these powerful situations is life-changing. I don't know what I expected to happen on this show, but the lessons we are learning as we help these people have just surpassed anything I could have imagined. |
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life. |
to never underestimate the impact one life can have on another. |