Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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

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.

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

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

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