Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.