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

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

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

We live in the least ugly time in history.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

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.