I want my music to do the explaining.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Country music is three chords and the truth.