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To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
