I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
Music is a fundamental human right
My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.