Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I love the conversation between film and music.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

Success comes from closing the gap between who you are today and your ultimate potential.

The value of having a vision backed by a strong work ethic is the simple formula for success

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Let the pain remind you hearts can heal

So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.