The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.