When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.