I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous!

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.