I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.