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.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!

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.

Music is a fundamental human right

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

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