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

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

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.