We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Some things will never change.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

Control your “anger” because it is just ONE Letter away from “d”anger.

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.