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

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

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

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 escapist but to take you out of misery.

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

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

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.