You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the ….

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5….

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out a….

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort o….

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. I don't have to think, ….

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, ….

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can..

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crise….

I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brai….

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but ….

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practi….

No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is com….

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's m….

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid..

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go..

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I'….

I just liked the feeling of being on stage..

Safety's just danger, out of place..

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay..

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mea….

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not t….