Vanessa Mae Quotes

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

Music is about the performance.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.