Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ev….

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate..

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 p….

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to f….

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded..

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head..

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that..

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard an….

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, a….

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse....

[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It'….

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have….

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and….

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best ….

'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'….

I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when the….

I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sigh….

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play b….

I wake up everyday and try to be the best husband, father and entertainer I can be. I'm no different offstage or talking to you or onstage than I am ….

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is calle….

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, bu….