Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

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

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.