The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

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

Music is a fundamental human right

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.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

People think of education as something they can finish.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.