Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen to other people, and to use your brain. That's why classical music doesn't work when you throw it at people in a subway platform while they're rushing to work. Classical music is something that needs to be contemplated, you have to be completely present with an active mind that's working. It's not background music.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.