If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

The "question" is the source of human evolution and revolution.

Gratitude is a blessed act.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.