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've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.