Quotes from Harry Connick, Jr.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

Well, I'm an optimist.

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.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

I've spent hours playing video games.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

My Dad is my hero.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

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.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them