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

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

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.

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.

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

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

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