The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.