We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.