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

I know I get up people's noses," "Everyone wants to pigeonhole you. Early on in my career I somehow got labelled 'Bach, John Cage and a bit of jazz'. But the fact that I love to play Beethoven, too, really infuriates people. It doesn't fit. They can't make sense of it. The received wisdom is that you can't possibly do all these things without it sounding terrible or crass or just plain wrong.

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

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