There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.

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

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.