You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

Jazz was my first love.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.