There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

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 never could believe that Providencehad sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, andmillions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.