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

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.

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.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.