New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.