Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light.

Pure has become impure, Impure has now become pure.Good has now become bad, Bad has become evil.For one to live is to die, for one to die is to live.-Kikyo

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Jesus can heal anything, anywhere, anytime, and anybody. All you have to do is put your faith in Him.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin