As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.