Joshua Bell

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a subway platform.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.