Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

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.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

I'm good at picking friends.

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.