Safety's just danger, out of place.

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.

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.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

I am a lifelong learner.

True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.