I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

I don’t think there’s enough of her left.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.