With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

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

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

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

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.