I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

I think Hillary Clinton is right. I think it isn't enough to leave [Bashir] Assad in place, because as long as he is there, there is going to be a recruiting magnet for ISIS.

God's hand never slips.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

Some things we need to talk about, but not here. I'll see you later, darling." "No you won't, nut muffin!

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.