I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

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.

I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.