I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.