Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

The boy I was craved Kat. The man I am craves Milla.

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.

Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.