There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.