I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.