My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.

I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger.

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

To love is an active verb.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

It can be tricky with branding these days, because everything is kind of branded.