I won't eat anything green.
I love to conduct opera.
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
My life is so full of sacrifices.
Art has never been a popularity contest.
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
I just have a lot off different influences.
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
