KR: I realize my responsibility now, especially after the Katrina thing. I mean before I was kind of real conscious of what I was doing because I was like, ‘Hey man, you the only one that’s doing this and everybody’s watching. You better be swingin,’ and well-rested and ready to do this the best every time you hit those little two or three hours. That should be the grandest time of your life.’ And I’m always thinking of how the old timers did it and how they played it and what they felt about it and whether they had grim feelings or whether they had real happy feelings. All that stuff. Just the total spiritual aspect of the whole New Orleans scene. It’s just so incredible to me when I realize what I’m doing and what’s goin’ on before the storm, so now it’s kind of like double that or triple that…

I was real eager to have the world hear this music. It was killing me inside not to have the world hear this music. And I would always talk to big timers and big time producers or just people in general, and whenever they asked me, “What can we do to make the music more [accessible] to the world?”—cause a lot of people knew about it, but you know, the youngsters today they really have the slightest idea—I say, “Man, put us on MTV and BET once a week. Live from New Orleans.” I’m the host of the show, or somebody else is the host, Quentin Davis. We need to be on TV everyday at least. And it took Katrina to do that.