I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

My Dad is my hero.

Everything I do is part of my passion.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

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 ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

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.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

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

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

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 trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

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.

I've spent hours playing video games.

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I like my life.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

I'm not a big goal guy.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

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 ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

I never dated much.