“She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.”

“Somebody like you taught somebody like me.”

“He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.”

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?”
“A piano.”
“Simon.”
“A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?”

“We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody”

“It seems that a lot of people, who haven’t known of me as a pianist, think I’ve just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what’s happened now.”

“I'd play the piano at 5am.”

“So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said "eh, I know you and you cannot sing"
I said "that's nothing you should hear me play piano"”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”