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It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

I really can't imagine not singing again.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

A female vocal can lift a song.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.