A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Time is running out for the climate

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day to day tasks.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.