What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.