Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.