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

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

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

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.