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.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

Don't get even, get mad.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.