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I go a lot to Korea and Japan.
I like to record. It's very intense.
I've been to New Zealand several times.
Is there such a thing as a normal childhood?
Everyone is always making transitions in life.
There's so many different ways to play Mozart.
There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.
You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!
The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.
I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.
I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ.
I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music.
Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.
Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.
Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.
I am not trying to be cooler or change my image or get into pop music.
I don't really compare myself to anybody. That would be very unhealthy.
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.
By the time I was 12, I was starting my high school stuff in home schooling.
I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.
Touring is a more varied and interesting existence than I would have imagined.
It's easy to be a prodigy. It's really hard to keep pushing in new directions.
I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.
I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.
The encore should wrap up the audience's experience of the piece you just played.
I grew up not watching TV and I enjoy TV but it kind of takes my brain away from me.
I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.
I like when things happen very quickly, just flash in and flash out. It keeps things interesting.
For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.
I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.
When I started my recording career, I hoped that someday the Grammy committee would notice something.
Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.
I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.
Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.
For vacation, I like going to places I've never been before. I've gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.
I've continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I'm glad I'm a musician. It's the perfect career for me.
I'm more creative the more rules I have - note values, tempos, dynamic markings. Somehow, I find that really inspiring.
I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.
Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.
My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.
It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.
When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels more like equals.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.
In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.