Me? I play Gene Kelly...It's a guy who produces, directs, sings, and dances. who else could it be but Kelly? - Fred Astaire

Q: What great singers of the past do you wish had sung your music?

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.