Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I never took any vocal training

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.