Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stage, and they're saying, wow, look at this. He's so fast.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.