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.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

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

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.

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

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