That's the goal, to survive your gift.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

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

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.