"Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things."

"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."

"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."

"It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music."