Yo-Yo Ma

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.