I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.