I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.