I made the wrong mistakes

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.