I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.
Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.
No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
So much of performing is a mind game.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
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.