Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.