True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart.

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.