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

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

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

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