I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.

I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem.

Country music has the great stories.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.