You need to have dreams. Everything starts with a dream.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

You can only play one hole at a time.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.