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.

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.

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.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

You don’t have the body you don’t have a debt. Ask for a loan.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

It would be easier to be tough on Russian than make a deal. I don't know if we'll make a deal.

While you're figuring out what to do, we've tried two different things and have figured out the right one.

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.