Quotes by Harry Connick

“Safetys just danger, out of place.”

“Oh man, its made my life easier....Imagine if a Duke Ellington or a Stravinsky had had a system like that.”

“New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do everything within my power to make that happen and to help in any way I can to ease the suffering of my city, my people!”

“Its so strange that this is a home game for us,”

“While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.”

“It is hard to sit in silence, to watch ones youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.”

“It is hard to sit in silence, to watch ones youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city ... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.”

“I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but thats not for me.... If they got Harry in, why couldnt they bring back some people who lived in the neighborhood?”

“It is hard to sit in silence, to watch ones youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.”

“The two are unrelated. Im not into turtles or space stuff.”

I have those dreams that you cant put into words.

My Dad is my hero.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. Were best friends. Were just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. Its a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that hes genuinely interested in what shes going through.

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

The whole American Idol way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if Id even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and Im deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing ones home.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

Im not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing All the Way, I was really thinking about my wife. People dont know my personal experience, but they can tell its an honest interpretation.