You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I tell them, "Well, you know, it does. You go to films and you're responding to it, and you've heard it..." It's controlling you! So don't think you're not being affected. It's a great medium for 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.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

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.

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