When I'm having a rehearsal and there are new guys who come in to try out for the job, I always let my conductor rehearse them. Because I don't want the guy to get bent out of shape, because I walk in.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.