I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.