I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.