I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

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

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.