Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.