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.

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

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.

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

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.