I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

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.

Make a u-turn, when you see you have traveled on the wrong path.

Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.

Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

If we are to transform the world, we must first begin by transforming ourselves.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.