To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Islamophobia may not actually be considered as a medical condition, unlike a medical condition, it is nothing but a primordial disgrace to the character of thinking humanity.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Even the ears must dance.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.