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

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

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.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

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.

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.