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

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.

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.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

I'm obsessed with food!