It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Ninety percent of living is just showing up.

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.