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

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

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.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

Silence is the mother of truth.

You are the dreamBut I’ve had wake up calls

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

claire:Now shane was talking sense?Wow was it opposite day?

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.