What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.