Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

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.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

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.

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

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

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