Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.