Michael Bolton

“We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.”

“The whole industry evolves around a great song.”

“I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.”

“Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.”

“It's an important thing to remember where you came from.”

“When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.”

“One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.”

“I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.”

“You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.”

“With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.”

“I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?”

“To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.”

“A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.”

“Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.”

“Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.”

“When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.”

“A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.”

“I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.”

“You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.”

“The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.”