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

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 hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

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.

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

I love the outdoor festival feeling.