When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

In concert, I often try to feel the audience and feel their way of hearing. If I feel that there is no contact between the audience and the music, I try to look stronger within myself, hoping that this will lead to a better contact.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.