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

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.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

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.

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

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