You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.