My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

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.

Love is a sacred soul.

Chirp of coward shouted in crowd, dare to speak but not to be known.

The future is always beginning now.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

I said all along, you judge your quarterback in his third year.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.