To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

Be bold in mind, in spirit and in faith.

Putting a smile on a child's face can change the world, Maybe not the whole world but at least their world!

Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.