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.
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.
