I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.