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.

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.

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

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.

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

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

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