I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.