“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 I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I only tour in short bursts, I’m only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I’m 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 don’t know my personal experience, but they can tell it’s an honest interpretation.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I have those dreams that you can’t put into words.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“My Dad is my hero.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early ’70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“My Dad is my hero. He’s 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn’t have been luckier with my parents.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don’t make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I’m not a movie star. People know me, but they don’t necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it’s not like Justin Bieber. It’s a nice thing, people are cool.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“I love my wife and I know she loves me. We’re best friends. We’re 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. It’s a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”
“The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.”
“- Harry Connick, Jr.”