I Will Gather Myself Around My Faith,

I Am Most Alive When I Let Myself Be Touched By The Fingers Of Life.

I Have Been Told For So Many Years That You Can't Be Smart And Sexy. I Started To Think, "well, Why The Heck Can't You Be Both?"

I Grew Up Bar-singing And Saw All Kinds Of Ways People Tried To Outrun Their Emotional Pain. It Doesn't Work. You End Up With The Original Pain, As Well As New Pain Added On Top Of It From The Tactics You Used Trying To Avoid It In The First Place. It's Best To Take A Deep Breath, Bolster Yourself, And Walk Through It.

Show Me One Man Who Knows His Own Heart, To Him I Shall Belong.

I've Had Mentors Who Were Kind Of The Troubadour Singer-songwriters, Like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan And Neil Young, And That's Just What I've Always Liked - People Who Would Talk Real Honestly About Their Lives And Their Circumstance.