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

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

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

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

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.

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.

Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?