What's interesting about a person without problems?

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.