Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.