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

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.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

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

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.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.