Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

The dog is all things to all men.

I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

No one can live in the light all the time.