It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them.

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.