Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to have me write songs that Rick felt were right for me.

All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

Some are born who never need them,
Others still who never read them, signs.