I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.