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.

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

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

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

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