They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.