I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.
I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.
We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.