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I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.