“If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonanc...” — Keith Jarrett Quote

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

I've always had creative freedom. Instrumental rock wasn't really a genre, but the success of 'Surfing With the Alien' legitimized my approach.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?