If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

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.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

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.

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.

It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.

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