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So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.