In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

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

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Music is about the performance.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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.