Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

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.

Trust a politician? I would rather staple gun my nuts to the back of a charging rhino.

This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.