Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

I'm disappointed, and I've expressed my disappointment, but there's nothing you can do about it.

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

I've always questioned death and birth and life, ... Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live? ... It just happened, it wasn't really planned, I swear. Everything fell into place.