My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.