To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission

Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.