Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

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

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

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

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.

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