If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

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

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

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

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.