It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.