Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

But superstition, like belief, must die.

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you