You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny.

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

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

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.