When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.