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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 had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

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

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

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 used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.