At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

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.