They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans with songs laughter dancing and a lot of wine.

I stay way from that area and there's only so many songs you can write about love sex and death.

The kids out there want something they can relate to something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Dad really had little to do with the songs except to perform them.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country Waylon Jennings Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

We would make songs and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

When my dad died a lot of songs came and they're still coming.