The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

There is nothing more compelling than another person.

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.