maybe I'm not going to be Frank Sinatra
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I don't want to stop singing, and I dread the day I have to ... I'm lucky my voice is still strong. I used to smoke, but I stopped in the '60s. How Frank Sinatra did it, I don't know. He'd smoke and sing at the same time. That dryness and heat, it's the worst thing for singers.
When I need to be inspired, it may be Chopin, it may be sitar music by Ravi Shankar or something soothing from Beethoven or possibly Mozart. When I need to relax I may listen to John Denver or Spanish guitar music or the Police or Edith Piaf or Frank Sinatra.
The children and I are in our 60s. The calendar and the clock, the chronology is running on all of us ... Frank and Dean are gone, and Sammy — but these memories and these relationships were real.
I ended up being his friend because he said ‘Steve does everything right. The kid pays attention. I like that ... I wasn’t his son, I was too young to be his crony — that was Dean (Martin) — I didn’t run with Frank or chase girls with Frank or anything like that.
It was always more of a difficult decision than anything I’ve ever had to consider, really
It seemed like fate ... We realized that this was like meant to be, and then everything happened very quickly.