It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.