On New Orleans, part trois

If I could put my finger on it, I’d bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it — the climate, the smells. It’s the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there’s an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.

Actor John Goodman (“Roseanne,” “Treme”) in an interview with the L.A. Times in response to the question “What makes people so passionate about New Orleans?”

Dang it if I didn’t <3 John Goodman before, I definitely do now.