I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

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

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.