When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

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.