When You Play A Violin

I Don't Sleep With A Violin In My Bed, But There Is Something Very Magical About The Instrument. You Open Up The Case; It's A Masterpiece, It's Gorgeous, The Varnish Is Still There From 300 Years Ago. People Who Know Violins, They Look At It And It's Almost Like A Face.

Kids Need To Be Structured In Some Way, But You Don't Want To Force Something Down Their Throats That They Have No Interest In.

You Don't Have To Have Lots Of Love Affairs To Know What Love Is.

I Always Find It Funny When People Say, "i Don't Really Like Classical Music" Or "it Doesn't Do Anything For Me." I Tell Them, "well, You Know, It Does. You Go To Films And You're Responding To It, And You've Heard It..." It's Controlling You! So Don't Think You're Not Being Affected. It's A Great Medium For Music.

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.