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

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.