It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.
There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
When I was at USC, I did a movie with somebody, and I had a blast doing it.
Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
