I Like Working With Kids Because I

When You Play For Ticket-holders, You Are Already Validated. I Have No Sense That I Need To Be Accepted. I'm Already Accepted.

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.

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.

There's Nothing More Frustrating Than Seeing A Conductor Say, 'play Softer,' As They're Waving Their Hands In Huge Gestures.

Being A Classical Musician, You're Doing Many Things Anyway. One Day You're Doing Bach Concerto And The Next You're Doing Some Avant-garde Thing. It's Just Another Hat That I'm Allowed To Wear.