You Go Through Phases. You Have To

Practicing Is Not Only Playing Your Instrument, Either By Yourself Or Rehearsing With Others - It Also Includes Imagining Yourself Practicing. Your Brain Forms The Same Neural Connections And Muscle Memory Whether You Are Imagining The Task Or Actually Doing It.

I Really Would Like To Be Involved In Things And To Understand Things, And In Some Ways You've Got To Be Careful What You Wish For Because I Feel Very, Very Blessed To Have Such An Interesting Life And To Be Able To Have Little Snapshots Of Lives Of People From Many Different Parts Of The World.

Music Has Always Been Transnational.

Bach Takes You To A Very Quiet Place Within Yourself, To The Inner Core, A Place Where You Are Calm And At Peace.

This Middle Age Thing Is A Little Weird. Some Friends And Mentors Are Gone, And There's A Very Forward-looking New Generation Coming Up Behind Me. So It's Very Much Finding My Own Place.