I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen.

I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.

Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.