I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

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.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.

The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.