When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

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.

She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ...

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.