I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!

Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

World history is a court of judgment

Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.

Don’t try to lie to your heart because one day, it’ll eat you up - Marina

It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.