I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

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

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Destroy all the barrier inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be nonjudgmental but be loving.

A loving heart is a magical magnet for magnificence.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.