At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Know you will win and you will win!

The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.

There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.