The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

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

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

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

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

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