Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another.

I Have Yet To Find Something That Beats The Power Of Being In Love, Or The Power Of Music At Its Most Magical.

Things Can Fall Apart, Or Threaten To, For Many Reasons, And Then There's Got To Be A Leap Of Faith. Ultimately, When You're At The Edge, You Have To Go Forward Or Backward; If You Go Forward, You Have To Jump Together.

Music Has Always Been Transnational; People Pick Up Whatever Interests Them, And Certainly A Lot Of Classical Music Has Absorbed Influences From All Over The World.

People Will Ask, 'are You Famous?' And I Always Answer, 'my Mother Thinks So.'

Our Cultural Strength Has Always Been Derived From Our Diversity Of Understanding And Experience.