There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

Stay inspired, happy and joyful.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.