Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

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 think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

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.

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.