The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.