"I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right."

"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."

"My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk."

"In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did."