Fear is the biggest motivator.

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

We're at bare bone now. There is no fat here, ... There has never been any fat here.