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My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

I've Never Felt Anything That Moves Me As Much As My Piano. I'm An Emotional Player. I Don't Really Like People. I Prefer My Piano To People. It's Totally Reliable And It's Alive. I Can Hear What It's Saying.

When You Stop Putting Yourself On The Line, And You Don't Touch Your Own Heart, How Do You Expect To Touch Other People?

It's Been A Thrilling Journey - I Have Had To Really Learn That An Orchestra Is An Entity - It's A Creature. I Have Been Calling It The Dragon And The Conductor Is The Dragon Tamer. And You Just Have To ... Ride And Don't Let Go And You Will Be Fine.

I Survived This Torture Which Left Me Paralyzed For Years. That's What That Night Was All About, Mutilation, More Than Violence Through Sex. I Really Do Feel As Though I Was Psychologically Mutilated That Night And Now I'm Trying To Put The Pieces Back Together Again. Through Love, Not Hatred. And Through My Music. My Strength Has Been To Open Again, To Life, And My Victory Is The Fact That, Despite It All, I Kept Alive My Vulnerability.