Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.