When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jordan or someone else -- those 1947 tunes come up a lot.

We have a rolling gag on the show. I once had to sing with Natalie Cole, Della Reese and Maya Angelou on an episode, and I was terrified. I was trying to carry a tune, and people thought I was trying to be funny. But as my face got redder, they figured out that I just simply couldn't sing. I wasn't trying to be funny!

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

You can sing anything you like -- When I'm 64.

When we first started looking for dealers it was a bit discouraging, ... We would get turned down as a dealer for one reason or another. But we kept saying when one door closes, God opens up two more. Now here we are with Duesenberg USA. It is definitely a good door!