I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

Value is coextensive with reality.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.