"I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure."
"Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along."
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Source: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.
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