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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.