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When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.