Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.