In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
I'm going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
It is better to look good than to feel good.
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.