I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

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.

As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.

My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.