Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.