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Harry Connick, Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, composer, actor, and television host. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history.

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I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

Big, Family, Kids, Mother, Scam

I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric. . . I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny.

Brain, Funny, Mean, Operating, Shaken, Thinking

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

Five, Reason, Reasons, Say, Sorry, Wife

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema. ' That's the most seductive music ever.

Album, Albums, Girl, Ipanema, Music, Seductive

[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

Everybody, Feel Better, People, Telling, Thinking

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

Dream, Dreaming, Environment, Opportunity, Practicing, Workin

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

Act, Love, Passion, Piano, Play

With imagination, I'll get there.

Imagination

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Attorney, Dad, District, New Orleans, Years

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

Brain, Life, Linger, Long, Memories

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

Albums, Band, Front, Harry, Ideas, Skills

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

Lucky, People, Romantic, Stuff, Think, Thinking

If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

Crazy, Keep, People, Striving, Thinking

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.

Dad, Headquarters, Mother, New Orleans, Orleans, Played

Everything I do is part of my passion.

Everything, My Passion, Part, Passion

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

Actor, Actors, Interpret, Singers, Song, Words

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it. . . for about ten years.

Ego, Jerk, Years

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

Artist, Mom, Mother, Tell, Tight

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

Childhood, Feeling, Feelings, Liked, Obsessed, Parent

I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

Couple, Hard Work, Name, Process, Recognizing, Responsibility

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