"I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to."

“Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas”

“At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.”

“If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.”

“A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.”

“As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.”

“All things come to him who waits - even justice.”

“Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

“To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.”