I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

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.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

He who has never hoped can never despair

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.