I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.