Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Talking about football on TV is something I can do with my eyes closed.

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.