Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.