When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
