In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.