I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.