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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

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'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.