The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

Story is what's most important.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.