Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.