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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

I know girls like musicians!

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.