When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Drama if I sing, drama if I dont sing. What do you do?

I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

Be true to yourself and as long as you can look back and be happy with what you've done stay that way.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.