From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thin….

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a comp….

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Thought is the thought of thought..

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion]..

Time did not compose her..

Everybody sings from their diaphragm..

You must learn to see, what you are looking at.

I love IMAX when it works right..

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!.

We travel just to travel..

I am not anti-English, and I never was..

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano..

I'm really bad at being nonviolent..

Tinks titties Rache Jenks.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything..

Smiles come best from those who weep..

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular..

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do..

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a….

Always destroy what is in you..