Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

Perfection is not very communicative

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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 your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

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