My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

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

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.