Music will always be my greatest passion.

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

Music is about the performance.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

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.

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.