Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

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.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.