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

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.

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.

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

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.