When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Docility is the observable half of reason.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.