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

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 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 remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

Those whose heart is full with love find the love everywhere.

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life