Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.