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

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

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.

Music has always been transnational.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

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