The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

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.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.