As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.