Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Science is for crowds what art is for individuals

It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.