I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
Happy is fishing, boating, running, volleyball, cooking, dancing, playing the piano, gardening…as long as you remember it is.
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
The team with the best players wins.
Golf is played with the arms.
