I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.