Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.