If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

Children love me, dammit!

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.