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

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

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

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 feedbac….

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

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace mor….

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..

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 ….

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….

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 al….

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