I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

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

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.

Maybe if I stretch my lips, I will remember how to smile.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.

Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.