You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.