The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

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.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

...the elephant smoked too much.

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.

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