The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.

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

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.