I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.