And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.
Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.
At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.
People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.
I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
I love it here in New Orleans.
That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.
New Orleans is a unique environment.
In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.
Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.
New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.
Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.
I'd like to move back to New Orleans.
Everywhere I go around the world, we have fans of New Orleans. Sometimes we go places, and people don't really know who we are, but they know New Orleans, and once we say we are from New Orleans, we have a lot of supporters.
I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.
