Aaron Neville

“My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.”

“I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.”

“I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.”

“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”

“Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.”

“Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.”

“My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.”

“When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.”

“I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!”

“'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.”

“When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.”

“Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.”

“When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.”

“Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.”

“My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.”

“Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.”

“Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.”

“I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.”

“Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.”