I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour.

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

I've never worked a day in my life.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.