The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

To master the piano is to master the universe.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.