It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

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

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

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

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 had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

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