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I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.