Music Is A Gift And A Burden

I Demand Perfection In What I Do, And I Practice Very Hard Before I Give A Concert-sometimes Three To Six Hours A Day.

This Is The World You Have Made Yourself, Now You Have To Live In It.

Anything Human Can Be Felt Through Music, Which Means That There Is No Limit To The Creating That Can Be Done With Music. You Can Take The Same Phrase From Any Song And Cut It Up So Many Different Ways - It's Infinite. It's Like God... You Know?

I Love The Classics But There Are Many New Ideas To Be Made Into Reality. I'd Rather Be Concerned With My Own Thing. There Are Many Masters Of Classical Piano So I'll Leave It To Them.

I Was Reared In The Church From The Age Of Three. I've Played Piano Since I Was Three. I Performed At Revivals And For My People Around North Carolina For Several Years. People Around Town Collected Money To Send Me To School.