Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.