If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

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

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 could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.