I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

I like minor tunes.

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

There are a million good tunes.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brothers keeper will end up by being his jail keeper.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

While at work keep a picture of your family on your desk. This reminds you that there is another world of yours at home.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.

The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.

The choices that we make arent always perfect but its ok... Its part of the journey.

All creativity is a work in progress.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Let go of the past.