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

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.

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

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.

Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

Never take the goals and aspirations along with your corpse. Rather execute... they doth entertain and enthrall the world around you!

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.