My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.