One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

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

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.