With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

A person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.

Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.