Vanessa Mae Quotes

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

Music is about the performance.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

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

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

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