Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.