I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

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.

Wanasayansi wanasema hakuna Mungu kwa sababu hawawezi kumwona wala kumgusa. Lakini nao hawana akili kwa sababu hawawezi kuiona wala kuigusa.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

I'm pretty much on the "eat whatever you can diet," just to get calories in, so I can maintain myself throughout the season.