Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those gold and silver discs given to singers. I wish I could take all of them to the goldsmith and draw the metal out.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.