New Orleans Is My Essence, My Soul,

You Have To Read Scripts And Audition And Develop Relationships. It Takes A Long Time To Develop A Body Of Work But Over The Last 25 Years I Guess I've Done That Many Movies. In Hindsight It May Seem Effortless, But There's A Lot Of Work That Goes Into It.

With Imagination, I'll Get There.

You Basically Have To Play Everything (in New Orleans), Because You're Getting Calls To Play Gigs Of All Different Styles, From Classical To R&b To Funk; Modern Jazz To Traditional Jazz.

My Mom And I Were Super Tight. I Think She Really Wanted Me To Be An Artist, You Know? She Used To Like To Tell People She Wanted To Be Beethoven's Mother. That Was Her Thing. She Wanted To Be The Mother Of This Person.

I Struggle Every Day With Trying To Be A Better Dad, A Better Husband, Better Musician, Better Artist. It Consumes Me, And I Don't See An End In Sight.