Million Dollar Arm touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundations core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.