Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

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.