I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

The truth hurt more than lies.

I found that things are always easier when I do them with love.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.

You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.