Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.