"Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago."

"When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs."

"No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part."

"My father loved people, children and pets."

"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."

"I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them."

"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not."

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."