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

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.

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

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

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.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.