From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.