Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

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

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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