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.

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.

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

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.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

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