A long time ago, I remember having cooperated with Shirley Bassey and I will never forget this moment which I shared with her while playing for and with her.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

I am not what one calls a celebrity.

I am rather discreet and shy!

I do not remember the most challenging one but I remember that many of the titles I have recorded have been quite challenging for me.

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles.

Some people know me because of my music and come and see me in my concerts but you very rarely see me or hear me in press or TV or radio magazines.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Happily, we do the work.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

When you're talented, you're talented.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.