I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.