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

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

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

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

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.