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I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he has to play the piano. But you know, to be very honest, I actually went into music because I wanted to be a composer and a conductor. And piano was just one of the ways to get into that.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.