35 Quotes by Vanessa Mae

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

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

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

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

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

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

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.

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.

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