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

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

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.