I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

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

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.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

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