Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

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

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.