I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.