I don't like overt traditionalism..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to….

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, ….

Accidental stacks considered harmful..