Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.
The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.
All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.
I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.
I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.
If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job.
We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.
We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before.
Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.
I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.
When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.
Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about.
I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.
To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift.
I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.
Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience.
I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.
Everything is a learning experience for me.
I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.
