Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

With imagination, I'll get there.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Safety's just danger, out of place.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

A flower never blooms in a hurry so live a life slowly but beautifully.

Don't hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong.

One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

He quite liked dentists’ waiting rooms. Waiting for dentists was good. Waiting for them was so much better than having them stick metal spikes in your mouth.

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

I'd rather be right than President.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.