I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

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.

holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things

My past is everything I failed to be.

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

But now its too late, And I am so broken, I don't want to carry the weight, Of the words unspoken...

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.