Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

I'm flatchested I'm short I'm brunette I have droopy eyes and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest best or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful wicked lovable and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me the Orchestra and me and the public between all of us and the city of New York because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra I learn. They feel everything they enjoy everything they have amazing energy.

At that time I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well if it was painful to read it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

You can't play a symphony alone it takes an orchestra to play it.