The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

When you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Read my book and you shall know thee

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.