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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.