It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

When you are where wild bears liveyou learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.

Anger... agony... so familiar emotions.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.