'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

With imagination, I'll get there.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Safety's just danger, out of place.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.