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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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