And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!