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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. ”

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool. ”

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. ”

You never know how much time you got. ”

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man. ”

The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it. ”

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time. ”

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born. ”

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way. ”

Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind. ”