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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.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.