"My life has been my music, my life has been my people. And my people is music."

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole everything, I give to music. And I don't care what nobody says."

"I don't play to the gallery. I play for myself, and if the gallery likes it, that's fine."

"I'm not an old man. I'm a young man with a lot of experience."

"I just want to keep on playing until I can't play no more."