When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.