I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.