I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

I am very confused and it's from a very very long time.......Already is a disease and it's spreading around the world... GLOBAL WARMING!

Yeah…hey, you have a male here.” Shay walked toward the hall, sniffing the air. “And he’s human. Way to go, Dani!

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me