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

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

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

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 all about the studio.

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

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 feedback in the studio.

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.