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

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

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.