I never dated much.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
I'm not a big goal guy.
I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.
All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
I don't ever feel the need to escape.
I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.
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.
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
Everything I do is part of my passion.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.
I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.
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.
I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.
I like my life.
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
You can't have a perfect show every time.
I've spent hours playing video games.
I'd like to move back to New Orleans.
There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.
I don't want to say the same lines every night.
You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.
You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.
I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.
Well, I'm an optimist.
Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.
My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
My Dad is my hero.
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
