Harry Connick
Harry Connick
my-best-friend married fortunate
I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.
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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 one's home.
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I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned.
dreams
I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
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Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
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Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.
love onstage
All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
enjoying life trying
I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.
played tons
I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.
american-musician space
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.
until
Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
time
You can't have a perfect show every time.
mind
I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.
people refine thousands
Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.