And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.