I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

Anything that requires thought is just too much.

I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.

I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.

The mind is a wild thing. An adventurer.

Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

I don't think I'm successful.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.