I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

You can't let haters stop you.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

I am very much against weapons in space.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.