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

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

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

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

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.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

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