I'm a writer. I've written most of the music we've performed. Most people don't know that because no one cares who writes the music. But, that's who I am. I've written poetry since I was a little girl. Music was an evolution of that.

I overheard backstage . . . Did someone just auction off Emilio and me? That was scary!

If Michael Jackson could write a song for a rat, I could write a song for [my pet bulldog] Noelle.

My foundation trys to help people that fall through the cracks, [people] that can't get help from big organizations . . . . We try to fill in where [other] peo…

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth:but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Tennyson follows his feelings in creating each line. He follows the music in his head. If you had asked him, at the end of the day, to describe the prosody of …