You can't learn pathos or profundity.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.