I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.