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

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.

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

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

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

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.

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.