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

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

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.