You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

It's better to be in love than watch it.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.