Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.