I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.