Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got.

Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.

The vastness of businesses administration entails that it is a rich platform from which a Muslim can conduct righteous deeds. Mohammad Rahman

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful