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.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

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.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.