I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

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.

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.