People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

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.

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.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

Security is superstitious. It doesn't exist in nature

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

As a seer, I naturally can see the evolutionary potential of a being. But the potential will not necessarily be actualized. A particular being will not necessarily realize their full height.

We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

There's never been a parent in my life.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.