Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.

I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.

I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.