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Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

I used to love Bach.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.