I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

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.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

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

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

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.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

I'm an everything Baltimore fan.

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

It's silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn't just look nice; she must have a personality, too.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

The youth intoxicated with his admiration of a hero fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

My life now is about my heart going pitter-patter for my children.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.