Having written or co-written hit songs for the likes of Faith Hill and Heart, among others, she's a singer, songwriter, guitar player whose songs and/or recorded performances represent an accumulated sales of an amazing 19 million CDs. She was the first female rock singer/songwriter to be signed to a major record deal that came out of Nashville and over the years has performed and recorded with the likes of Richard Marx, Amy Grant, Ozzy Osbourne, and more. She is sometimes seen performing with the American Classic Hit Makers, and she has a new single coming out, first in Australia with a #1 artist there.
"Sometimes you just don't hear it right away. Ya' know, you don't hear that a song is great right away sometimes and... it might take some time."
"It was something that we didn't think about. We didn't plan it out and go, 'Oh, we're going to do this song and this video to win awards.' We wrote it because we were in pain, about our loved ones."
"I grew up on songs from the 70s that helped me through hard times because they were raw, vulnerable, and real. And, I just think you can't go wrong writing like that if it's honest, if it's true, and if it's from your heart... I don't think you're going to offend anyone. I think you are going to help people heal. People want to know that somebody else feels like they do because at times I think we all feel isolated with whatever pain we're going through."
"It's something you can't manufacture. People try all day long to make things happen the way they want them to. But, it just doesn't seem to happen that way and you need a lot of luck, you need timing."
"You can have great songs and nobody records them but yourself. And that's a good thing too!"
"Any newcomer to the music business, learn this - if it's not in writing is it not true, on a contract."
"It's like you do all this work and you don't see any money because they signed you, they collect the money, and you're the last person to get paid."
"Today, the way the new models for downloading and streaming and all of that, you can own your own material and collect your own money, which is great for independent artists."
"When you're hot and you're famous everybody loves you, everybody's around. When you become a normal person again, they're all gone."
"Faith (Hill) asked me to sing on her record with her and I was going to be in L.A. and I probably should've made more of an effort to be there, but at the time... music wasn't that important. I had to look at myself."
"I think there's a maturity that happens in songwriting when you start writing better and people recognize that or you get into a zone where you're writing songs that resonate with people."
"Bed of Roses"
"Untangled"