I love the outdoor festival feeling.

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.

The light is shinning in every dark place.

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey.