“There’s a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called “Sketch Book”; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.”

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

I’m happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to – I’m very aware that that’s a privilege.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

I’m not much of a storyteller with words!

The marathon can humble you.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston.