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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

I speak the language of television.

For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.