I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Do not take a blind guide.

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.