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

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.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

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

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

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.