You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.