I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies..

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles t….

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me..

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable….

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on..

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly..

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies com….

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know".

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and as….

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody..