As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

Never settle for less, optimize your potential wherever you find yourself.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.