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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.
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.
When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.
When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
