"My songs are like my kids."

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"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

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"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."

Books

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."

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