I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.