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.

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.

I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

So much of performing is a mind game.

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.