I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through