It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.