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

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

My material life is simple.

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

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!