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Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

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.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

Sinatra was somebody special.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'