The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.