There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

We don't have time to waste. this is why I created Network & Golf. I challenge you to find one woman with nothing to do.

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.

President Trump has been very public about the fact that Aleppo is a humanitarian crisis that's been all but ignored by America for far long.

I tried to have a cookie, and this girl said, "I'm mailing those cookies to my friend." So I couldn't have one. You shouldn't make cookies untouchable.

, and they could name a handful.

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.