I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.

In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.

I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever!