Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Don't ask questions that you don't want the answer to.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.