I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.