Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

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.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.