I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.