To be a good kisser start slow, definitely ramp into it and remember somebody's on the other side of your mouth!

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.

'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.

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.

Develop your character

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.