Personalized Performance Quotes

The way I play is very unique.

The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

I would love to do more private concerts.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.

I definitely wanted to pay homage to what he did and use his performance in the first one as a foundation. But, I had to make it my own. I couldn't sit there and try to imitate Michael Clarke Duncan. I think that would have been disastrous. I had to make it my own. I tried to take as many nuances that he had with the character and utilize them as best I could, while creating a character that was unique to me. That's going to happen, no matter what.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.