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.

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

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.

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.

Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.

We should reveal God to this world with our wealth

Death must die so that life can be real!

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.