Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

I was different from most young conductors today.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

My first memory of the national team is the 1982 World Cup. I remember those days at our home or at my uncle's house, with all the family and those long dinners watching the matches. But I also remember that, during the games, I went outside or onto the balcony to play.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.