I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

Love is the universal language that transcends countries, borders, barriers, and differences.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.