I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

You've got to keep things flying.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

I consider everything I compose a gift.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

You cannot go back to your past and erase or do alterations, but today you can have a new start

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I look really good in a scuba suit.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.