If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.