When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.