I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.

There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.