“As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.”

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs ‘Come On, Come On’ and ‘I Am A Town’, they’re two of my favorite songs.

There’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

When there’s an opportunity to do more, we must.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

It’s just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it’s not a thousand acres, it’s considered a ranchette.

If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics.

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

My two great loves are music and horses.

But little details like that is not what people are able to see, and that makes the world of difference to the outcome of the situation.

I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I’m going to be able to do.

Adversity makes me hungrier.

Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.

It’s what we live for, to be able to make great illusions.

They don’t seem to be able to rise above these things.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.