To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.