"I remember when I was eight, my friends thought it was a little bit unusual that I was going off to Europe or to Asia…"

"I had this very interesting experience when I was about 13. I went to Finland and it was dead in the middle of winter…"

"Now this is very funny because my brother's name is Michael Chang, I go in for interviews or just talk to people and …"

"I hate analyzing stuff. I do the bare minimum. When it comes to interpretation, I just play it and go from there. I t…"

"There are certain moments in performance when I'm hand-in-glove with a conductor and feel I can take risks and try so…"

"I've worked with a lot of living composers recently. It drives me nuts, though, that they like to change things at th…"

"Everything in my life is planned. It adds stability, but it makes me yearn for something that's not planned, that's s…"

"I try not to take my life for granted. I have friends who have tendinitis. That would kill me. A short break from the…"

"I've always ranked the Brahms as the Mount Everest of all concertos -- and the Beethoven, of course."

"I like Lenny Kravitz, I like Pink, and for forever and ever I've thought that Whitney Houston has an amazing voice. I…"