I Like Trying Things, I Am Kind

I Never Had Any Real Expectations About What Sort Of Success I Would Have Or All The Publicity.

I Was Lucky Enough To Have Parents Who Started Me On Music Very Early, But Most Kids Don't Get That Kind Of Exposure.

Social Media Puts Us Inside Our Phones And Our Computers And Our Headphones, And We're Not Connecting So Much With Our Outside Environment. Even When People Go To The Grand Canyon They're More Concerned About The Selfies Than Actually Looking At The Canyon. I See It With My Own Kids - The Addiction To Needing Things Fast, Never Pausing To Just See What's Around Us And Connect With Our Fellow Human Beings In Real Time.

We Live In The Least Ugly Time In History. If You Look At Back When Beethoven Was Writing, Half The Kids Were Dying, Mothers Were Dying At Childbirth, There Were More Wars Going On Then Than There Are Now. People Wrote The Most Beautiful Things During The Ugliest Times.

The Best Way To Refine An Interpretation Is By Getting Out And Performing.