There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers were dying at childbirth, there were more wars going on then than there are now. People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.