I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.
And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.