All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
“My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.”