I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

I listen mostly to classical music.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in the project at hand ... It’s a cheering thought that this kind of missionary enterprise did not pass from this earth with Leonard Bernstein. Robert Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. We need him.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.