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

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.

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.

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.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.

Some people make enough, some people don’t, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

Faded way too long, I'm floatin in and out of consciousness

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.