Vanessa Mae

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.