Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

There is nothing more compelling than another person.

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.