I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen.

I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.

Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

A good thing can't be cruel.

They yearn for what they fear for.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.