To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

My background was in performing originally.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you dont know how to feel good about the work youre doing or the life youre leading.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong do right. Men will believe what they see.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!

Crude absurdities trivial nonsense and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole eternal truth.

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

The one thing I'm very aware of is I've never been particularly good at relationships.

I think the word rich is all relative.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.