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.

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

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.

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.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the 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.