I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

There are always consequences to the truth.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.