In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

Well, just another thing that Michael Cole brings to Monday Night Raw, he invited Laycool here, for whatever reason.

Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love