I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

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

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.