I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

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

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

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.