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

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

I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

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

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

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.