"I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like."

"I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself."

"Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center."

"The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument."

"It is a essential truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience."

"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."