I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that your dreams, desires or goals are more important than fear.

Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.