My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

There is hope for you.

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.