The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

Wow. Look at the lines in your face, Missy. It's like your bitterness just dug in and stayed.

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.

In the cross of Christ I glory,

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.