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

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

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

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

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

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

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.