Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

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

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.