I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

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!

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

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 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.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

Was Jesus a christian?

A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Christ in us must take dominion over the earth.... The next move of God cannot occur until Christ in us takes dominion.

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.