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

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

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

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.