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

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.

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.

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.

What you do defines who your are. Remember to be the best at what you do. You develop higher confidence from doing what you do excellently.

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.

God will defeat the great infidels.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.