Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.