When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.