You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.