It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

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.

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

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

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.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

This is what The Qur'an and the Bible have been prophesying - the end of a world of evil and injustice: We are at that time, now.

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.