Music Has Been A Burden And A

When I Choose Material For An Album All These Songs I Grew Up With Pour Into My Head.

That Is Why We Fly From The Inner Void, Since God Might Steal Into It. It Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Aversion For Effort Which Causes Sin, But Fear Of God. We Know That We Cannot See Him Face To Face Without Dying, And We Do Not Want To Die.

I Know I'm Different, But I Don't Think About It.

When I Was Studying... There Weren't Any Black Concert Pianists. My Choices Were Intuitive, And I Had The Technique To Do It. People Have Heard My Music And Heard The Classic In It, So I Have Become Known As A Black Classical Pianist.

Jazz Is Not Just Music, It's A Way Of Life, It's A Way Of Being, A Way Of Thinking. . . . The New Inventive Phrases We Make Up To Describe Things - All That To Me Is Jazz Just As Much As The Music We Play.