Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.