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

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

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

I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.