My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

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.

I wanted to kiss you like the waves kiss the shore under the blue sky.

Grace abounds for everyday life.

... If there are twenty identical doors in the corridor and you need somebody to enter one of them, what would you do? That’s right, put „No entry“ sign on the right door. Visit is guaranteed

Is she always like this?" "No, usually worse.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.