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Memory is the fear, and I play most of my repertoire from memory.

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As a musician you can cover everything. I'm not just a concert pianist.

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I didn't go to school until I was 11. On your own you develop imagination.

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Once you start cancelling, there's always something which is not quite right.

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I quite like shutting the door, putting the answering machine on and sitting at the piano for six or seven hours.

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My favorite composers tend to be great improvisers as well as great players. It doesn't matter whether they're contemporary or classical.

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I've played Bach since I was a little girl. I can't let a day go by without playing him. He's so witty and secretive and funny and mathematical and brilliant.

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If you want a nine-to-five existence with weekends off then don't be a musician. I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if I had children. But it hasn't worked out like that.

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My education was very intensive and I applied that training later on to playing the piano. I had always played, but having no one to compare myself to, I had no idea if I was any good.

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I wasn't part of that hothouse thing. I didn't go to the Yehudi Menuhin school. I grew up with the idea of trying to make music available to people of all abilities. The Guardian - 26/05/2000

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What was most odd was that teachers would tell you what to do and what to think and they would write everything on a blackboard and you would copy it all down. The Evening Standard - 04/07/2002

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