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

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

Music will always be my greatest passion.

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.

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.

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

You can't let any team awe you.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"