Michael Bolton

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

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.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

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?

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

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

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

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

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

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.