Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

Coming from Chicago I like a white Christmas.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater I was in all likelihood not going to find financial success.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

I was a huge theater geek growing up and that was not the easiest thing in the world especially growing up in Chicago where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony which would have been an extremely sad loss.

In most places in the country voting is looked upon as a right and a duty but in Chicago it's a sport.

Since I was a kid I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties Chicago blues of the Fifties West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.