"When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.'"

"A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect."

"There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live."

"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

"I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done."

"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."