My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
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.
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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.
