We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.