Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

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.

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.'

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

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.