I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

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 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'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.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.