I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

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

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

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.