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Depends on what you want to do. Lots of people just want to play SOMETHING and don't really care what. Ideally, they learn the instrument so that when they enter the home of somebody who has a piano, they can sit down and play some tunes.
Other people I know learn piano because they hear a piece of music that inspires them to learn how to play it.
Lessons are never a bad idea if you're serious about learning the instrument properly, but oftentimes people get put with bad teachers who either don't teach students how to play properly, or they put their students through a rigid series of method books that suck out some of the enjoyment of learning the instrument. Method books can be good, but with adult learners they usually go by too slowly, so material and techniques become much harder to learn
What's your musical experience up to this point? Do you read music? Do you know about key signatures and the primary basics of music theory? What do you ideally hope to gain from learning to play piano?
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