The music becomes something that is its own entity.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.