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

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.

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!

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.

Love yourself first in order to endlessly love others.

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

May we all be blessed with the knowledge of the Most Ancient of DaysThat we may realise we are all one in existenceAnd in that awareness may we find peace...

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

You're immortal as long as you live.