Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.