I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

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.

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.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

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

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