"I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool."

"'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone."

"The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble."

"There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever."

"I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

"Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day."

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."