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!

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

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

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

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.