Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

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'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.