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I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

Piano is like drudgery.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.